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20. The whole length of Long Island. 



21. I do not know where they winter. 



22. They feed on brit and a kind of jelly on the surface of the water. 



23. Fish in the sound do not show during a cold north wind. They 

 io not show in the spring until the temperature of the water reaches 

 520F. 



25. I can suggest faster boats as the only improvement. 

 Answers on board the next fishing steamer at the same place : 



1. William A. Wells. 



2. Grreenport, Long Island. 



3. W. G. Bailey. 



4. Yes. 



5. Very small menhaden. 



6. I first saw them on the south side of Long Island. 



10. Eleven hundred thousand. 



11. Twenty-four hundred thousand. 

 21. I believe that they winter on the coast of Florida. 



24. I think it is. 



25. Faster boats would be a great improvement. Last year, mack- 

 Wel were quite numerous ; this year we have seen very few. I think 

 {that if no menhaden were caught when they first appear on the coast 

 |intil about the 10th of June, they would come in the bays where they 

 ispawn. I believe it would be better for all if a law were passed pro- 

 hibiting menhaden fishing until the 15th of June. 



I Answers on board the next fishing steamer off Cedar Point, Con- 

 necticut, July 13, 1883: 



1. Steamer Portland. 



2. Port Jefferson, 

 o. M. J. Morran. 



4. Yes. 



5. Small menhaden. 



6. The first mackerel are usually caught between Capes Hatteras and 

 Henry, about the middle of April. We caught the first menhaden off 

 Long Branch, N. J., on May 14. 



7. Fish making a passage usually travel about two miles an hour. 



8. Caught in all depths. 



i 10. Fifteen hundred thousand. 



11. Four million four hundred and five thousand seven hundred. 

 15. Length, 220 fathoms ; mesh, 2| inches. 

 17. Very few; occasionally blueiish. 



20. The whole length of the sound. 



21. We think on the coast of Florida or western edge of the Gulf. 



22. Do not know. 



23. They scatter in warm weather and come together in cooler 

 weather. 



?4. Yes. 



